as far as the governments themselves, the towns, the counties, the state, the city, they're up and ready to go, and they will do whatever has to be done. the power is a real question mark. >> and what about the storm relief that you finally negotiated from the house and senate? is the money flowing yet? >> the money will be starting to flow in the next several weeks. i give the administration credit because they had 60 days from the time the bill was signed to start the money flow. they actually started approving money within six days. again, the people on the ground have not seen it yet. i would say over the next several weeks you will see it, but it was disgraceful that it was over 90 days where with katrina it was within ten days. this was inexcusable, and this is what we're concerned about is that a major storm would hit during the winter months before rehabilitation work had started. >> i wanted to ask you in your role as homeland security chief, what about this conversation we're having now about drones, about national security? we have a new cia director who is likely to be confir